# Local MCP editing with tf

Jay Carlson (nop@k2.ccs.neu.edu)
Sun, 17 Mar 1996 16:02:08 PST

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    >Brandon Gillespie drew these hieroglyphs:
    >>
    >> This is for those die hards who abhore emacs and still use tf (myself
    >> included).  I dont know if somebody has done this already, so I did it
    >> myself (I know it has been a desired functionality for a while).  The
    >> file:
    >>
    >>     ftp://ftp.cold.org/pub/mcpedit.tf
    >>
    >> Will give you MCP editing capability in tinyfugue.  From the header:

    > Now is there a place that actually has an up-to-date spec on MCP?
    > Looking up 'help MCP' on JHM gives me a draft spec that still assumes
    > you're using a hacked server that takes `@@@' as an out-of-band
    > prefix.  This gripe has yet to take root in the do-something-about-it
    > department.

    http://jhm.ccs.neu.edu:7043/help/subject!mcp is the HTML-ified (and
    commented) version of the spec that everyone agreed on---the original
    is still in http://jhm.ccs.neu.edu:7043/help/subject!mcp-spec if you
    don't trust my reformat.

    Nobody really remembers why @@@ is in there.  It works well for the
    server->client case, which is good enough to support local editing,
    Connection closed by foreign host.turned in-band.  Works for us, at
    least.

    I'm going to enter a monestary if I don't get my idea of a next draft
    out the door soon.  The line waiting to kill me is getting too long.

    Jay Carlson
    nop@nop.com    nop@ccs.neu.edu    nop@kagoona.mitre.org

    Flat text is just *never* what you want.   ---stephen p spackman